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...Stephen Gaukroger One of most surprising aspects of the shift from scholastic natural philosophy to the new mechanist natural philosophies in the early decades of the seventeenth century is the retention of a doctrinal conception of knowledge. There was an assumption not only among scholastics...

...John Considine Cutting up paper slips with pieces of information written on them, sorting them into alphabetical order or some other precise order, and pasting them into books was an important information management strategy in early modern Europe. It does not seem to have been used...

...Whitney Trettien As early efforts to include women in the canon of Renaissance literature give way to gender-oriented research in material culture and book history, it is increasingly the scholar's task to marry the language of ideological negotiation to a more wide-ranging investigation...

...Jeffrey Todd Knight This essay explores the long genealogy of sewing in books from the stab-stitched quartos and octavos in early modern bookshops to the sewn-in corrections, repairs, and embellishments of manuscript pages in the Middle Ages. Broadening the default chronology of book and literary...

... in these years of crisis, demonstrating that, on the contrary, political writers drew upon medical ideas and metaphors selectively and often inconsistently in order to lend persuasive authority to their arguments. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 early modern chemical medicine medical metaphor...

...Penelope Meyers Usher This essay explores the early modern reemergence of the sortes Virgilianae , a practice that involves opening a bound copy of Virgil (often with a pin) and finding prophecy in the verse upon which the seeker lands. Examining the accounts of the sortes in antiquity...

... 2016 early modern devotion Protestant spirituality vital spirits medical language and metaphor interior religious experience • Flame into Being: Spirits, Soul, and the Physiology...

... seventeenth century. Their life stories, set against the backdrop of an early modern “global city,” shed light on the cross-cultural interactions that were critical to early modern globalization, as they contributed to the cultivation of global trade and participated in the far-reaching projects of Spanish...

...Peter C. Herman © by Duke University Press 2000 Rastell’s Pastyme of People: Monarchy and the Law in Early Modern Historiography Peter C. Herman San...

... in the Early Iberian Lyric Anthony P. Espósito University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Protecting the textual ecology The fall 1995 issue of La...

...William T. Cavanaugh © by Duke University Press 2001 a Eucharistic Sacrifice and the Social Imagination in Early Modern Europe William T. Cavanaugh...

...Victor I. Scherb © by Duke University Press 2002 a Assimilating Giants: The Appropriation of Gog and Magog in Medieval and Early Modern England...

...Randon Jerris © by Duke University Press 2002 a Cult Lines and Hellish Mountains: The Development of Sacred Landscape in the Early Medieval Alps...

...Andrew Gordon © by Duke University Press 2002 a The Act of Libel: Conscripting Civic Space in Early Modern England Andrew Gordon University...

...Patricia Fumerton © by Duke University Press 2002 Not Home: Alehouses, Ballads, and the Vagrant Husband in Early Modern England Patricia Fumerton...

...David Brakke © by Duke University Press 2003 The Lady Appears: Materializations of “Woman” in Early Monastic Literature David Brakke Indiana...

...Dennis E. Trout © by Duke University Press 2003 Damasus and the Invention of Early Christian Rome Dennis E. Trout University of Missouri, Columbia...

...Marina Brownlee “Intricate Alliances” is a phrase that calls attention to the inevitability of contrastive referencing by which the two imperial powers of early modern Europe–Spain and England–have all too often been regarded. This special issue explores in a more nuanced manner, and from a variety...

...Barbara Fuchs This essay uses the lost Shakespeare play Cardenio and its eighteenth-century redaction, Double Falshood to think through the problem of Spanish sources in early modern English drama. I argue that the search for Shakespeare's hand in the texts has occluded the significance...

... of De humani corporis fabrica . This essay focuses on the implications of Vesalius’s and his followers’ anatomical discoveries for the practice and professional status of early modern Italian midwives. In particular, the essay focuses on three venues in which the authority to understand the female body...